Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-300) and index.
Contents
Female influence is powerful : respectability, responsibility, and setting the terms of the woman question debate -- Right is of no sex : reframing the debate through the rights of women -- Not a woman's rights convention : remaking public culture in the era of Dred Scott v. Sanford -- Something very novel and strange : Civil War, emancipation, and the remaking of African American public culture -- Make us a power : churchwomen's politics and the campaign for women's rights -- Too much useless male timber : the nadir, the woman's era, and the question of women's ordination.
Summary
This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.
Local Note
Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement Collection. Funded by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities through the Women's Suffrage & Beyond Program Award (2020). https://guides.rider.edu/wcsm